Of course they do. But until they stop voting for wealthier blacks — or the white plantation owners that crack the identity politics whip for the Democratic Party — they’re out of luck. Moreover, they have themselves at least partially to blame.
The federal government wants control over education. Teacher’s unions don’t want competition, nor do they wish their members judged with an eye toward the best and brightest, but with an eye toward protecting the sinecures of the most pedestrian and uninspiring. And the media, as an arm of big government social activism, simply hitches its cart to the progressives, whom they believe must have some scary smart, politically-savvy reason for making sure many inner-city children are stuck in poor, dangerous, and dysfunctional schools.
What the media won’t admit is that the answer as to why the progressives continue to oppose vouchers is staring them right in their Obamazmatized faces: poor education creates a permanent underclass, allows for political indoctrination, and keeps the Democrat Party flush with those most susceptible to voting “in their financial interests” — which is merely code for “welfare, entitlements, and subsidies, etc” of the kind that keep our most ignorant sector of the public, those who’ve been poorly educated and turned into slaves to the state, perpetually on the dole, where a recent study showed they make the tax-free equivalent of working men and women who earn about $60K yearly.
It’s an enormous redistribution scheme, dazzling in its cynicism and mind-boggling in its distaste for the American people it wishes to see reduced to voting subjects.
— Which someone with some balls should remind them the next time they go to vote. Because it isn’t a white President or a white Attorney General suing to prevent vouchers in Louisiana, for instance. It’s a pair of black men who surround themselves with the trappings of fiery civil rights rhetoric while all the while doing everything in their power to prevent the very civil rights advances that would take away one of their perpetual rallying cries, a monotonous, predictable droning that serves only to drum up the votes of a victim class they themselves keep locked up on the liberal plantation.
Eric Holder has a dream. But if you look at it closely, you can’t help coming away thinking that dream is that Martin Luther King, Jr., would have just shut the hell up.
(h/t JohnInFirestone)
The next thing will be severe restrictions on parochial and homeschooling, because “it takes money away from the public system” and thwarts “diversity” by failing to subject children to a shitty education. It will take the form of a tax, of course, to not impinge upon our rights.
It will take the form of a tax, of course, to not impinge upon our rights.
Are we sure it won’t be a licensing fee? Or perhaps some really stringent
home invasionssafety inspections to make sure that there aren’t anyfirearmsConstitutionsBiblessafety hazards present in yourprivate domicilenewly-designated “education center?”Hell, if you home school in Minnesota, chances are good that the Governor will put you in the teacher’s union whether you want it or not.
Squid, I’m sure the impositions you mentioned have been considered. At least five years ago, the NEA made the mistake of publishing it’s “playbook” on alternatives to public education on the internet. I read it before it disappeared, but it spoke chapter and verse about making homeschooling and parochial schooling so onerous and expensive, for both operators and students, that the alternative education movement would die a natural death. I just hope I can get my youngest through parochial school before this goes down.
My youngest is out of public high school in 2015. He’s enrolled in an advanced math and science program that gets him out of their clutches for four hours a day. So, he is only at the “regular” high school for English, History and sports. He smoked his ACTs last year with a 29 and already has a scholarship in the bag for college.
I’m so glad he’s nearly done and I don’t have any younger kids or any grandchildren (yet) or I’d have to offer to homeschool them.
[…] but cruel parody of MLK’s legacy need to reconsider. For starters, here’s the latest bit of nonsense from our Attorney General trying to stop Louisiana’s voucher system, which among other […]
Democrats: Party of the Poor
Republicans: Party of the Rich
It follows that Republicans don’t want people to be poor and Democrats don’t want people to be rich.
Try this out on your next leftie and see what happens.
I’m less concerned about anti-competetiveness than I am about institutionalized constraints against competency standards.
In Florida at least, teachers unions have managed to wangle a combination of middling pay for the teachers with a large membership with its attendant political clout. I can’t fault them so much for inflating the wage as I can for making sure that people who couldn’t pass mandatory student testing still can hold a job.
I know teachers that post things on Facebook that are laughably packed with spelling & grammatical errors. Some of these people I like personally, but I would probably not be happy if they were teaching my kid.
I’m not advocating that teachers have periodic competency testing. I just think that principals should have the ability and obligation to take teachers who are demonstrating a lack of competency and put them where they can do the least damage. If your spelling and grammar skills stink, you shouldn’t be teaching anything more demanding than Phys Ed.
There are SO many things we could do to improve education, but none of them will happen because it’s no small majority of teachers who are idiots.
Get the LIV out of education, and the quality will go up.
“Try this out on your next leftie and see what happens. ”
The libs aren’t listening right now. They think they have power for life and are always right and the 80’s didn’t work and their opposition are always wrong right now. They can’t hear what fuckheads they’ve become. They won’t start listening again unless they get a big loss and a strong of little losses.
OT, but as Jeff often repeats, if you own the language, you win the rhetorical battle: why do we continue to refer to Mr. Choom-Gang Obama as “black.” He’s half white. Does the black half negate the white half? Are we in a society, as in the late 1800s, where a person’s ethnicity was decided by what percentage of “blood line” they have? If so, he’s white– ’cause those evil British occupiers of Kenya must have injected some Cockney blood into the Soreto family tree at sometime during their leisurely, imperial stay there. Or is it like Native American reservations that have strict blood-line percentages for qualifying for casino profits? Why would he choose to mark “black” on a census form? He could just as easily mark “white.” Well, we all know the answer here. But it does underscore how far we’ve drifted from MLK’s ideals and how the power of race-language corrupts and usurps the very foundation of what is reality.
ProfShade, I had a similar argument with a woman from my church who is a family law attorney. She was all steamed up about the Baby Veronica case. Briefly: Father signed over parental rights and is not on the child’s birth certificate. He reaches back in time and finds an Indian ancestor and claims the child, who is now 2 1/2 as his citing an obscure law about removing Indian children form the Rez. Adoptive parents spend large amounts of dough and time suing to get the child returned to them and win. Outrage ensues since the child is Indian, although she is about 90% white and doesn’t qualify under the Tribe’s own rules for membership.
Anyway, the woman I know was howling about the court “redefining” what it is to be an Indian. I told she should know better (ran through above scenario) and told her the well-being of the child should be paramount, not the “one drop rule” she was seeking.
*crickets*
Our Outlaw lawyers excepted, the law is an ass and proves it every day.
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I’ll need biohazard gear to protect against the splatter when their heads explode.